CarolinaEast Medical Center, a 350-bed hospital in New Bern, N.C., will drop Blue Cross Blue Shield and UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage plans, effective July 1, citing burdensome payment policies, claim denials and reimbursement delays. The hospital issued termination notices to both…
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Healthcare employment rose by 37,300 in April, in line with the 12-month average of 32,000 monthly job gains, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The bureau released the jobs report May 8. Here are three more takeaways: 1.…
AI underperforms on simple number-crunching tasks that hospital administrators rely on to track admissions and apportion resources, Mount Sinai and Mayo Clinic researchers found. The study’s authors analyzed nine large language models’ ability to perform two straightforward administrative tasks —…
Rob Allen doesn’t pretend the pace of change is easy. As president and CEO of Intermountain Health — a six-state system headquartered in Salt Lake City with 34 hospitals, more than 400 clinics, and an insurance arm covering more than…
The four largest publicly traded for-profit health systems are holding steady on their 2026 financial projections after sharing their first-quarter results. HCA Healthcare, Tenet Healthcare, Community Health Systems and Universal Health Services each reaffirmed 2026 guidance. HCA Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA…
Drug shortages, geopolitical pressures, fragmented inventory data and a growing expectation that pharmacy and supply chain work in lockstep — the pharmaceutical distribution landscape is changing fast, and health system leaders are grappling with the operational and financial implications. At…
Flint, Mich.-based Insight Health System and former employees reached an agreement April 28 in a lawsuit over its layoffs. Five things to know: 1. David McCullough, a laid-off employee, filed the lawsuit April 1, 2025, against Insight Foundation of Hillside,…
Google is rebranding the Fitbit app as the Google Health app and adding new features designed to help users centralize health and wellness data, including medical records, lab results, medications and vitals. Here are seven things to know about the…
Enrollment is rising in all nursing school programs except in research-focused doctorates, and master’s programs are the only ones to see a decline in applications, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing found. The AACN’s 45th annual survey compiled data…
Atrium Health, part of Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health, said a data security incident involving EHR vendor Oracle Health may have exposed patient information tied to legacy systems used before the organization transitioned to other EHR platforms. The incident affected certain…